Mumbai Indians (MI) IPL 2024 trading window: Everything you need to know!
IPL 2024 trading window: Here is the list of Mumbai Indians retained and released players ahead of the IPL 2024 auction.
Mumbai Indians (MI) IPL 2024 trading window: Mumbai Indians will be the team to watch out for in the upcoming season of the Indian Premier League as there are several reports saying that Gujarat Titans captain Hardik Pandya will be part of Mumbai Indians again and Ishan Kishan will not be part of the retained roster of the franchise and there are chances that the franchise will release him.
Along with Kishan, Jaydev Unadkat, Murugan Ashwin, Riley Meredith, Piyush Chawla, Sandeep Warrier is also likely to be released by MI for the upcoming season of the cash-rich league. MI currently has only INR 50 lakh in their pockets. November 26 (Sunday) is the last deadline for all IPL franchises to submit their retention lists. The auction for IPL 2024 will take place in Dubai on December 19.
Pandya was released by Mumbai ahead of the IPL 2022 mega auctions and became captain of the Gujarat franchise, leading them to the title in their debut season in 2022, winning Player of the Match in the final against Rajasthan Royals and taking them to second place led. in 2023.
Rohit Sharma will look to regain the IPL title for Mumbai after the franchise’s poor showing in the last two seasons of the tournament.
Also, Hardik will become the third captain to be traded after R Ashwin moved from Punjab Kings to Delhi Capitals, and Rajasthan Royals also traded Ajinkya Rahane to Capitals in 2020.
The biggest challenge for Mumbai Indians will be having enough money for trade. After the last auction, Mumbai was left with only INR 0.05 crore ($6,000 approximately).
Franchises will get another INR 5 crore ($600,000) in their pockets for the upcoming auction. This just means that Mumbai will have to release player(s) to complete the Hardik transaction.
MI Remaning wallet: INR 50 Lakh.
Current squad for Mumbai Indians: Rohit Sharma (captain), Suryakumar Yadav, Ishan Kisan, Cameron Green, Tim David, Tilak Verma, Nehal Wadhera, Akash Madhwal, Jason Behrendorff, Piyush Chawla, Arshad Khan, Vishnu Vinod, Kumar Kartikeya, Jasprit Bumrah